My mother's side

Most of the work I have done in the past has mainly been on my father's side, so this was a journey into my mother's side to start this off.

My mother grew up in Yadkin County. Her mother was from a family of ten children who seemed very progressive. My grandmother obtained her college degree in 1939. With today's interstates, it is 211 miles (3.5 hours) from Yadkinville to Greenville, which my mother traveled by bus in 1939. I would have never been able to do this, I went to college 10 miles from home!

You can see her photo here actually - http://media.lib.ecu.edu/archives/photo_display.cfm?id=12648. She is on the top right hand side. Emily Brendle. My grandmother would go on to marry my grandfather - John William Williamson, (of Duplin County) but that is a line for another day.

The story supposedly goes like this according to family legend. My grandmother graduates from East Carolina in 1939. She is then sent to Duplin County to teach. She steps off the bus in Duplin where upon my grandfather sees her and knows that is the woman he is going to marry.

So, so far,
Emily Elizabeth Norwood McGill (me) - Mary Phyllis Williamson Norwood - Mary Emiline Brendle Williamson.

I need to find an actual document that proves my grandmother's parentage. I am sure it lives in my great-grandfather's will since I have seen that at some point. I know it is probably also on some census records, I just have to walk my fat butt back across the street to find those...